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MY: Happy people live longer: subjective well-being contributes to health and longevity. Appl Psychol: Health Well-Being 2011
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@MISC{Chan_my:happy,
author = {Micaela Y. Chan},
title = {MY: Happy people live longer: subjective well-being contributes to health and longevity. Appl Psychol: Health Well-Being 2011},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Seven types of evidence are reviewed that indicate that high subjective well-being (such as life satisfaction, absence of negative emotions, optimism, and positive emotions) causes better health and longevity. For example, prospective longitudinal studies of normal populations provide evidence that various types of subjective well-being such as positive affect predict health and longevity, controlling for health and socioeconomic status at baseline. Combined with experimental human and animal research, as well as naturalistic studies of changes of subjective well-being and physiological processes over time, the case that subjective well-being influences health and longevity in healthy populations is compelling. However, the claim that subjective well-being lengthens the lives of those with certain diseases such as cancer remains controversial. Positive feelings predict longevity and health beyond negative feelings. However, intensely aroused or manic positive affect may be detrimental to health. Issues such as causality, effect size, types of subjective well-being, and statistical controls are discussed.
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subjective well-being subjective well-being contributes happy people appl psychol positive affect predict health normal population life satisfaction healthy population negative emotion physiological process seven type naturalistic study certain disease animal research negative feeling various type positive feeling positive emotion subjective well-being influence health manic positive affect high subjective well-being experimental human effect size socioeconomic status statistical control prospective longitudinal study
